The WAV files of SIT tones "on the 'net" don't work!!
One is off-key and doesn't properly trigger SIT detectors. The other is so warbly and distorted that it doesn't properly trigger SIT detectors either.
I ended up recording my own by dialing an unassigned number and recording the resulting SIT tone from the telco. *THAT* one properly triggers SIT detectors.
Yep, digital cant possibly match the distortions from vinyl warping, and will never match the wow & flutter from vinyl playback.
Then you get the nice harmonic (and other) distortions created by the analogue pickup and amplification processes required to convert the feeble movement of the stylus into signals.
Not to mention that everytime you play a vinyl disc you score it with the needle wearing down the vinyl so every playback is subtly different from the last one.
for inaccurate reproduction and distortions, you can't beat vinyl.
Just as CD has the ability to produce more consistent and even reproduction of sound, CCD/CMOS have the ability to produce more accurate and consistent images. film suffers from the same problems that plague analogue recording mediums.
using your feebleminded logic, when someone kills people with a knife, you sue the knife manufacturer rather than the individual who knifed them to death.
no, if they think they might lose or jeopardize a potential source of advertising revenue, they will NOT run the story.
this includes political parties, BTW.
newspapers rarely worry about that since there is so much precedent law protecting the press (otherwise, every tabloid would have been sued into bankruptcy ages ago).
nespaper primary concerns are advertising revenue and circulation revenue. anything that puts either at even the tiniest risk will result in complete and utter censorship.
with newspapers, it's all about money. if they think they might risk losing even a penny by running your story, they won't.
if they feel there's a buck in it for them to twist your story around and make YOU look like the bad guy, they will.
your best option is to NOT approach the newspapers unless you have a rock solid case and a lawyer to back it up. but then they probably won't cover your story, it conflicts with their potential advertising revenue sources.
ever notice that newspapers rarely, if ever, do negative stories on local companies?
Much of the PTP swapping happens on university networks.
Universities often have medical facilities, and share the network.
Say the RIAA launches an attack which inadvertently damages a medical database -- someone gets the wrong prescription or diagnosis and dies as a result of the RIAA.
Or the RIAA launches a DOS attack which just happens to deny service to an important medical service, as a result some patient's treatment is delayed/denied and dies.
Deaths would be acceptable "collateral damage" to the RIAA perhaps, but I have to wonder WTF legislators are thinking when they give even one picosecond of consideration to this bill.
This isn't as unlikely as it sounds. Despite what one might think, university hospital systems are more often than not NOT FIREWALLED and NOT PROTECTED and suffer from the same poor security as the rest of the university networks.
..yet we STILL have unethical companies burdening the medical system with ridiculous and frivolous patents, thus putting the entire population at grave risk.
if a patent causes the loss of life, it's a bad patent and MUST be rejected if the patent system is ever to regain even a sliver of respectability.
this can also work to your disadvantage, especially in slack economies like the current one. expensive credentialed employees are the first ones axed in favor of cheaper labor.
"Corporations are legally individual entities"
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If that is so, then we need a corporate death penalty. M$ needs to get the chair.
When I heard I was going to have to have all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth removed, I DEMANDED full anethesia.
It was well worth it: It turns out they were so crowded and impacted that they had to take each tooth out by sectioning -- cutting them into several pieces and taking each piece out individually.
sorry that turned out to be kind of a rant. to turn it into a question -- do you think the proposed changes would work? how would you change it, given the current brokenness of the patent examination system?
As it is now, there is virtually NO incentive for patent examiners to do their job correctly.
There are NO penalties for a lazy patent examiner who ignores tons of well known prior art and just signs off automatically on every ridiculous piece of crap that lands on his desk.
Here's how it can be fixed:
1) patent examiners get paid some very low base rate for examining a patent 2) patent examiners get a bonus for every prior art they can find which invalidates the patent 3) patents which are invalidated via prior art in court result in the responsible patent examiner's payment for that patent being revoked 4) examiners who have a history of patents being invalidated are suspended or fired.
Essentially, the patent examination process would then provide REAL incentive for examiners to do exhaustive research to invalidate patents -- as it should be.
Right now there is NO incentive for patent examiners to do a proper prior art search. And this leads to extensive abuse of the system from bogus and invalid patents. The most incredible crap gets signed off these days, and it's obvious the examination process needs a total overhaul.
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The WAV files of SIT tones "on the 'net" don't work!!
One is off-key and doesn't properly trigger SIT detectors. The other is so warbly and distorted that it doesn't properly trigger SIT detectors either.
I ended up recording my own by dialing an unassigned number and recording the resulting SIT tone from the telco. *THAT* one properly triggers SIT detectors.
yeah, that's why CCD has largely replaced film in professional telescopes. obviously due to film's low-light superiority.
so the tradeoff film makes is imprecise and inconsistent color and exposure response...
:-)
take your pick
Yep, digital cant possibly match the distortions from vinyl warping, and will never match the wow & flutter from vinyl playback.
Then you get the nice harmonic (and other) distortions created by the analogue pickup and amplification processes required to convert the feeble movement of the stylus into signals.
Not to mention that everytime you play a vinyl disc you score it with the needle wearing down the vinyl so every playback is subtly different from the last one.
for inaccurate reproduction and distortions, you can't beat vinyl.
say what? it's already happened, it happened YEARS ago.
it's called DPOF.
they are small CRYSTALS of silver halide.
Just as CD has the ability to produce more consistent and even reproduction of sound, CCD/CMOS have the ability to produce more accurate and consistent images. film suffers from the same problems that plague analogue recording mediums.
... is like vinyl vs CD
using your feebleminded logic, when someone kills people with a knife, you sue the knife manufacturer rather than the individual who knifed them to death.
no, if they think they might lose or jeopardize a potential source of advertising revenue, they will NOT run the story.
this includes political parties, BTW.
newspapers rarely worry about that since there is so much precedent law protecting the press (otherwise, every tabloid would have been sued into bankruptcy ages ago).
nespaper primary concerns are advertising revenue and circulation revenue. anything that puts either at even the tiniest risk will result in complete and utter censorship.
with newspapers, it's all about money. if they think they might risk losing even a penny by running your story, they won't.
if they feel there's a buck in it for them to twist your story around and make YOU look like the bad guy, they will.
your best option is to NOT approach the newspapers unless you have a rock solid case and a lawyer to back it up. but then they probably won't cover your story, it conflicts with their potential advertising revenue sources.
ever notice that newspapers rarely, if ever, do negative stories on local companies?
now you know why.
This is a very real possibility:
Much of the PTP swapping happens on university networks.
Universities often have medical facilities, and share the network.
Say the RIAA launches an attack which inadvertently damages a medical database -- someone gets the wrong prescription or diagnosis and dies as a result of the RIAA.
Or the RIAA launches a DOS attack which just happens to deny service to an important medical service, as a result some patient's treatment is delayed/denied and dies.
Deaths would be acceptable "collateral damage" to the RIAA perhaps, but I have to wonder WTF legislators are thinking when they give even one picosecond of consideration to this bill.
This isn't as unlikely as it sounds. Despite what one might think, university hospital systems are more often than not NOT FIREWALLED and NOT PROTECTED and suffer from the same poor security as the rest of the university networks.
..yet we STILL have unethical companies burdening the medical system with ridiculous and frivolous patents, thus putting the entire population at grave risk.
if a patent causes the loss of life, it's a bad patent and MUST be rejected if the patent system is ever to regain even a sliver of respectability.
"and I could not even consider KDE for daily work unless KDE were to address or surpass GNOME on these points."
come on, be honest here. you wouldn't consider KDE even if it did.
you should have taken down his name.
grabbing your balls is assault, a criminal offense.
...no one has, because there's no downloads!
No updates since Feb 2002, looks like a dead project.
the google search you recommended turns up nothing useful.
what page exactly were you referring to?
I initially bought this for three reasons:
:-)
:-)
1) It's the only portable OGG player right now
2) It's a reasonably full functional, and powerful PDA
3) It runs linux, thus has endless potential -- far more than any proprietary PDA
Already there is a completely opensource replacement OS for the Zaurus.
But... there is no "killer app" yet. A few possibilities though:
1) Real, usable, opensource GPS software using one of the many CF GPS cards out there.
2) Wireless portable OpenH323 terminal
For now, zaurus xmms and zmame are enough to keep me busy for a long time
In the REAL WORLD, IT experience is difficult to *measure*.
In the REAL WORLD, A Cisco or MCSE etc certification gives more bang for the buck than any possible college degree.
in a down economy, degrees can be a liability when they come round looking to axe expensive employees.
this can also work to your disadvantage, especially in slack economies like the current one. expensive credentialed employees are the first ones axed in favor of cheaper labor.
If that is so, then we need a corporate death penalty. M$ needs to get the chair.
Whenever I hear "linux" and "chinese" in the same sentence, I always get this image of Microsoft waging a 1950s-mccarthy propaganda war:
m p3.jpg
"When you use Linux,
you're using COMMUNISM"
I guess I've been tainted by http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0004/propaganda/
When I heard I was going to have to have all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth removed, I DEMANDED full anethesia.
It was well worth it: It turns out they were so crowded and impacted that they had to take each tooth out by sectioning -- cutting them into several pieces and taking each piece out individually.
sorry that turned out to be kind of a rant. to turn it into a question -- do you think the proposed changes would work? how would you change it, given the current brokenness of the patent examination system?
As it is now, there is virtually NO incentive for patent examiners to do their job correctly.
There are NO penalties for a lazy patent examiner who ignores tons of well known prior art and just signs off automatically on every ridiculous piece of crap that lands on his desk.
Here's how it can be fixed:
1) patent examiners get paid some very low base rate for examining a patent
2) patent examiners get a bonus for every prior art they can find which invalidates the patent
3) patents which are invalidated via prior art in court result in the responsible patent examiner's payment for that patent being revoked
4) examiners who have a history of patents being invalidated are suspended or fired.
Essentially, the patent examination process would then provide REAL incentive for examiners to do exhaustive research to invalidate patents -- as it should be.
Right now there is NO incentive for patent examiners to do a proper prior art search. And this leads to extensive abuse of the system from bogus and invalid patents. The most incredible crap gets signed off these days, and it's obvious the examination process needs a total overhaul.